Liu Bao, literally “Six Forts,” is the quietest celebrity in the world of dark tea. While Pu-erh hoards the spotlight, this cousi...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the quietest, and within that hush Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen—speak...

If green tea is China’s gentle watercolor and pu-erh its aged ink wash, then Phoenix Dancong is the country’s lingering flute sol...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “black tea,” they picture a bright Ceylon or a malty Assam, yet the very word “black” was...

If green tea were a language, Biluochun would be its most delicate dialect—soft, lilting, and impossible to forget once heard. K...

Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, Huoshan Huangya has quietly embodied the elegance of Ch...

Deep in the karst hills of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, a tea has been quietly fermenting for centuries, ab...

In the hushed hour before sunrise, when the Wuyi foothills are still lacquered with night dew, tea pickers climb the granite terr...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “oolong,” they picture a curly, jade-green pellet that unfurls like a tiny accordion in h...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor the color of claret in the early sev...